{"id":291088,"date":"2025-11-18T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:49:07","slug":"why-beef-is-so-expensive-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291088\/","title":{"rendered":"Why beef is so expensive right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/HD6U5XR6SFIE5JJGCZRHS2P3U4.JPG?auth=2cd7ebc0cd3321543e49d82488239363d3f70fe8c40f9a2e5e99fe2db4994289&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Cows and their calves graze in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., on June 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntoshJeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this episode by clicking above or subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/podcasts\/the-decibel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/podcasts\/the-decibel\/\">The Decibel<\/a> on your favourite podcast app or platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-decibel\/id1565410296?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-decibel\/id1565410296?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3qYDbRr9geEsFkkwkq3oeL?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3qYDbRr9geEsFkkwkq3oeL?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/41787d0e-cbd2-4d33-96e5-506ca588241b\/the-decibel?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/41787d0e-cbd2-4d33-96e5-506ca588241b\/the-decibel?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\">Amazon Music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-decibel-81650306\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-decibel-81650306\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\">iHeartRadio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/6yr6jcgb?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/6yr6jcgb?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=podcastepisodepage&amp;utm_campaign=decibel_mkt\">Pocket Casts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLjt27UiMlbQXaZvGPVS3iacAbBQrebVmS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLjt27UiMlbQXaZvGPVS3iacAbBQrebVmS\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/economy\/article-beef-prices-skyrocket-commodity-cattle-alberta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beef prices<\/a> are currently around 23 per cent above their five-year average. And there\u2019s no relief in sight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/authors\/kate-helmore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Helmore<\/a> is The Globe\u2019s agriculture and food policy reporter. She explains what\u2019s going on in the beef industry to cause these sky-high prices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/podcasts\/the-decibel\/article-why-beef-is-so-expensive-right-now\/mailto:thedecibel@globeandmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thedecibel@globeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Cows and their calves graze in a pasture on a farm near Cremona,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1397,45,49,48,876,39919,39921,39913,39916,39917,46,39918,39915,1398,1399,1404,39920,39914,1400],"class_list":["post-291088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-appwebview","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canadian-daily-news-podcast","tag-daily-podcast-canada","tag-decibel","tag-decibel-globe-and-mail","tag-decibel-podcast","tag-economy","tag-listen-to-decibel-podcast","tag-listen-to-the-decibel","tag-nodelphi","tag-nopolly","tag-podcast","tag-the-daily-for-canada","tag-thedecibel","tag-yespop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}